HOEK VAN HOLLAND LANDSCAPING

(hook vän hôl´änt) or Hook of Holland: district of Rotterdam, W Netherlands, on the North Sea. It is an outer port of Rotterdam, with which it is connected by the New Waterway. It is a terminus for ships that cross the English Channel from Harwich, England... My father named the original business after the town of Hoek Van Holland where he worked on the ships when he was a teenager. He wanted a company name that reflected his Dutch heritage. My father emigrated to Canada from Holland in 1957... Hoek Van Holland Nursery and Landscaping was created and built in 1972 by Peter Strybosch at Steeles Avenue and Brimley Road in a suburb of Toronto called Milliken. It was created after Peter had created and sold a successful landscape/maintenance business called Agincourt Lawn and Landscaping which maintained the grounds of several large commercial properties in Toronto, Honeywell, Rockwell, Dad's Cookies, and IBM included.

Also known as: Hoek Van Holland Landscaping Ltd